Session and Touring Drummer

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: My promise to my clients is that I'll be able to get them quality tracks within 24 hours.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: What I like most about my job is being able to play drums, contributing to people's music, and hearing a song come to life by providing what they need.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: The questions customers most commonly ask me are: -What's your rate? $70 per song -How fast can you get the stems in by? 24 hours -Can you play the parts in this style/way? Yes

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: The questions I ask prospective clients are: -Can it be done in Logic Pro? -Do you have reference tracks for drums? -Can I hear the song? -Could you please send the session and indicate the BPM?

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: My advice is to a customer is to know what they want and be straightforward about their project needs, while also trusting in my ability to get it done.

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: If I was on a desert island, I would take my Macbook, audio interface, Roland SPD, speakers, and drum sticks.

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I have been playing drums for over 14 years. My career path is to be a full time session and touring musician.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I would describe my style as clean, precise, and tasteful.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: The artist I would like to work with is Harry Styles because he has great taste and drum production. I feel like it would be fun to play a live show with him.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: My one music production tip is it's not about how loud you play the drums when you're recording, it's about getting a great sound out of your drums.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: The type of music I usually work on are pop songs.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: My strongest skill is time and groove.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring to a song a great feel, accurate time, and tasteful rhythmic ideas.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: My typical work process is to listen to the song, composition, or project multiple times first. Then I go into the studio and do a few practice runs to develop ideas, then I start recording. Once I'm confident I have the best takes, I bounce out stems shortly thereafter.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: My studio set up is a 5-piece Tama Starclassic Maple Drum Set with a hi hat, 5 crash cymbals (including a ride), 2 rack toms, one floor tom, and 8 microphones - 2 over heads, 1 snare, 1 rack, 2 floor, 1 kick, and an additional microphone for any other element that may be needed.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: Other professional musicians who inspire me are Nate Smith, Dave Dicenso, and Aaron Spears. But, at the end of the day, my peers keep me inspired, motivated and humble.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: The most common type of work I do for my clients is record live drums for their songs, compositions, or other musical projects.